Multimodal Perception

Question 1

What effect can visual cues have on sweetness perception

Answer 1

People have a challenging time correctly identifying fruit flavoured drinks that have been coloured incongruently.
Beverages coloured red are perceived to be 11% sweeter. Think it’s to do with predetermined ideas.

Question 2

How can we increase sweetness through volatiles

Answer 2

Strawberry aroma can make things taste more sweet

Question 3

Explain the multimodal perception of carbonation

Answer 3

Carbonation results in increased bitterness,
Carbonation increased acidity probably due to the activatIon of sour tasting ion channels by carbonic acid
Carbonation makes it difficult to tell between articulate sugars and sugar so could be used to reduce sweetness